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...gave me a new gun for Christmas-but the Colonel gave me both barrels." Efficient Visniskki showed him how he could save the Ledger "a staggering sum." One way: to leave the middle paper-towel rack of three in the men's washroom empty. Another way: to get rid of Stanley Walker...
Probably the most debated point in postwar Soviet history was the "last testament" supposedly left by Lenin. Most salient point in the alleged document was a proposal to get rid of Stalin "because he is too crude." Stalinists have long denied its genuineness; best Trotskyist argument is that Stalin once quoted it and that Stalin once admitted: "Yes, I am rough, rough on those who roughly and faithlessly try to destroy the 'Communist Party...
...week for chores. From my experience in a one-room school I found that the pupils thought it a great privilege to get away from that inimitable humdrum of a one-room school to gather wood and fetch water. To the teacher it was a relief to be rid for awhile of the annoyances of the slothful, ne'er-do-well pupils...
...Harvard? Today it's here, tomorrow it won't be. Tomorrow night it will be just rows of empty windows, starting glumly out over the Charles. The cops will tread their quiet beats, and the commuters will wait peacefully in the Square for the Arlington bus, glad to be rid of the students rudely elbowing their way through the crowded safety zone. In the Yard, the snow will fall, eventually to melt away undisturbed by the usual hands of the students scooping up the flakes and pounding them into snowballs. Passengers in the great airliners flying over Cambridge will still...
...course will obviously run more smoothly next year, but the only way to get rid of all the red tape and arbitrary regulations which thrive at present, is to have the C. A. A. establish offices in their most important districts throughout the country, instead of trying to run the whole business from Washington. The University and the Aeronautics instructors will do justice to the course at Harvard only when they are freed from the shackles of a distant and inefficient organization...